Friday, September 22, 2017

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the reviews and more...added links and images

This week's selections, reviews of the books and more cited below, include a few duplicates, whether due to review of reissues or announcement of them, or a couple of quick looks at a key, vintage fantasy anthology. Patricia Abbott will be back to hosting next week, before going on to see if she and her daughter Megan win the first parent-and-child duo of Anthony Awards at the world crime-fiction convention in Toronto, the Bouchercon...thanks to all the contributors, and all you readers...

Todd, thanks for compiling this fine list of FFB reviews, including mine along with the TSEP cover. The covers, cast (of writers) and content of The Fantastic Universe Omnibus, Swords & Sorcery, The Spell of Seven, and Beyond got my full attention.

Thank you, Prashant. As noted in the review, the FU OMNIBUS isn't quite the anthology it could or should be, but is still a reasonable representation of the magazine often referred to during its run as "the poor man's F&SF"; the BEYOND selection is also not by any means all the best that fantasy (and not really science fiction at all, back in the days when "fantasy" wasn't a selling label on most paperbacks) magazine ran, but gives a good sense of it.